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Getting Started

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    To quickly get started with Veeam Availability Console, keep to the following sequence of steps:

    1. Fill your company profile.

    The company profile contains your company name, information about company address, contact details and so on. Company profile details will be used invoices and email notifications, such as billing or alarm notifications.

    1. Create locations.

    To differentiate backup services and cloud resources consumed by different offices or business units within your company, you can create multiple locations.

    1. Add systems to manage.
    1. Deploy Veeam Backup Agents and configure backup jobs.

    Deploy Veeam backup agents on computers in your infrastructure and configure backup job settings.

    1. Connect Veeam Backup & Replication servers.

    Connect Veeam Backup & Replication servers that you plan to manage in Veeam Availability Console.

    1. Configure backup reports.

    Configure and run backup reports to check the efficiency of data protection, and make sure that you meet established RPO requirements.

    1. Configure alarm settings.

    Check alarm settings, alarm response actions, and configure alarm assignment.

    1. Create new portal users.

    To provide access to Veeam Availability Console to other employees in your company, create new portal users and assign the necessary user roles for them.

    Getting Started Note:

    To perform configuration tasks, a user must have the Location Administrator privileges in Veeam Availability Console. For details on users and privileges, see Managing Portal Users.

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